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ed page where the Patented May 11, 1937 UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE FONT OF TYPE Overton W; Pendergast, Terre Haute, Ind.

Application February 8,

9. Claims.

This invention relates to printers" type and. more particularly to fonts of type where; each character thereof: is composed of two; or more sections or. pieces.

The principal object. of the; invention is to pro.- vide a limited number of novelsections or pieces which may be: assembled. toprovide: type characters: of difierent fonts, including italicized, and the. like.

Another object is to; provide a: limited number ot novel= sections or pieces, someo-f which may be employed to assemble two or more different type characters of the same-font.

Another object is: to provide sections or pieces asabove, which may be handled similarly to and as readily as are conventional printers type.

Another objectisto provide a plurality of novel sections: or pieces: which may be used to create type; characters giving no indication on the printseveral sections. forming, the characters are joined together.

Still another object. of the invention isto provide a plurality of novel. type-like sections or pieces having great flexibility of use,.in thatv when selectively placed. in rows or lines, are adapted to produce a number of different. fonts. having novel characteristics. suchas slanting or curving of the vertical stems and hair lines of the character, and. stepping of the individual sections to produce a slanting or curving of. the horizontal stems and hair lines of the characters either with respect to' each character or a group of characters' forming a word" or line.

Another object is to provide novel linotype or type casting machine slugs which will be defined hereinafter simply as sections or type sections may be arranged to form characters as heretofore described.

Other objects and advantages of the invention during the course of the following detaileddescription, taken in connection with the accompanying a part of this specification, and in which drawings:-

Figure la a plan view. of a complete assembly of novel sections necessary to form the letters ofthe alphabet, figui'es. and, punctuation marks, which are employed in printing and which will be described in this specification as characters.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of; the printing face of a plurality of the novel sections shown in Figure 1 assembled to provide characters.

Figure 3. is an enlarged planet the printing faces of a plurality of the novel sections arranged to form italicized characters.

, Figures 4. and 5' are perspective views showing formation of the letter 1933, Serial No. 655,845 newed March. 1,1937

the; printing, faces of. a plurality of the novel sectionsarranged. to iorm letters E. differing from that shown in Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a. perspective view of the faces of a plurality of sections, some different from. those heretofore shown, arranged to form the letter 0.

Figures. '7. to. 1.0V inclusive are examples. of the results achieved by theemployment of. the novel sections.

In the drawings, wherein for. the purpose of illustration is shown only a preferred embodiment of the invention there is illustrated, inFigure 1 sixty-five elongate sections or pieces IE to each having parallel. sides. and 9| andparallel ends 92 and. 93. and a. face formed of one or more raised portions. 95 projecting from a counter l'ike base 96. These sections are preferably type high and of conventional type metal, linotype metal or the like and, in the example shown in Figures 1 and 2, each raised portion 9.5 is a solid square, spaced apart from its fellows. However, these raised; portions 95 may represent hollow squaresor other geometrical figures or a combination of twomay be employed as shown in Figureo.

In the formation of type characters (in this specification the word characters is defined to embody alphabetical letters, punctuation marks and numerical figures and the word section or type section as definingany or all of the elements making up these characters, whether these sections be similar to ordinary printers type, linotype slugs, casting machine slugs, or the like, in bodyform or composition) the proper sections are placed together side by side by the compositor to form a character. As an example; in the E shown in Figure 2', the compositor will place the following sections in the order given Gil, M, 53; 53, 53, I5, and I5, and to form, the Figure l he will arrange the sections as follows: [5,. l5, and 29". The compositor will set the sections as he does ordinary type and may employ a: conventional printers stick in doing so.

However, the compositor is not limited to an E as shown in Figure 2, but may select sections in the following order: 44, 59, and I5 to form the character E. shown in Figure 4 or section to form the character E shown in Figure 5 in which latter case he will employ the sections in. the following order; 6|, 6t, 53, 53,53, [5, l5 and I5.

From the foregoing it is apparent that other characters may be thus condensed or extended over what is illustrated in Figure 2 and by still from the same assembly of secers type which is not italicized.

By the employment of a number of triangular slugs or slugs with slightly curved faces, the ordislugs are inserted sections making up a character as ure 10.

In Figure 6, sections having certain geometriand 93 of the shown in Figthe faces of the sections are shown as at and 6|, the character 0 being made up of sections l5 H5, (H 44, 44, Bi l5 and In Figure 9 the employment of a plurality of sections is secured to From the foregoing it will be seen that there is provided a plurality of novel sections which may tion marks and figures for a majority of the jobs requiring fairly large characters.

In the production of a font of these novel type tially horizontal.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a font of print type sections alphabetical letters,

4. As a new article of manufacture, a font of print type sections from which sections various alphabetical printing faces divided into geometrical figures, all of said figures being spaced apart one from the other.

spaced from each other and spaced from each edge of said sections.

6. As a new article of manufacture, an alphabeing adapted to be composed wider or narrower, surface having thereon one or more printing and comprising two or more type sections, each faces each printing face being of alike geometrisection being of like height and also being of cal shape and disposed inwardly of the edges of the same height as said alphabetical character, said sections and spaced apart from every other each section being disposed parallel in a single like printing face. row widthwise of said character and each section 9. As a new article of manufacture, an itali having one or more printing faces, each being of cized alphabetical letter, figure or punctuation a like geometrical shape and disposed inwardly mark of printing type comprising at least two of the edges of said sections and spaced apart type sections, alike in height and having spaced 0 from every other like printing face. apart printing surfaces, said sections being dis- 8. As a new article of manufacture, a type secposed parallel to each other with said sections tion for the production of a font of type chartilted from the vertical and with the top and acters for printing purposes, each character bebottom edges of the printing type character ing composed of two or more of said sections, formed by said sections being disposed so that a each of substantially the same height and width straight horizontal line extending across said secand each of substantially the same height as tions will touch similar portions of said printing the height of said characters, each of said secsurfaces on said sections. tions provided with a substantially rectangular OVERTON W. PENDERGAST. 

